Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] up in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 2 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 3 | These points were then totalled and posted up in the staff room , and at the end of the year those at the bottom of the list were dismissed . |
| 4 | They 've been to bed and got up in the morning , and now they 're going off and doing things , like going to work and that . |
| 5 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 6 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 7 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 8 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 9 | As one of my comrades put it : " One bloke tried it and finished up in the Glasshouse . |
| 10 | Gabriel crawled off into a corner and scrabbled together a nest made out of costumes and coils of rope , and curled up in the centre of that . |
| 11 | They drove in convoy round behind the great house , on a sopping weed-infested gravel drive , and pulled up in the stable-yard , where Roland helped Sir George to disembark the wheelchair and Lady Bailey . |
| 12 | Both were born and grew up in the East End of Glasgow . |
| 13 | Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups . |
| 14 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 15 | Faced with a national drought that was playing havoc with his own garden and those of his village neighbours , one Richard Bullock took matters into his own hands and ended up in the dock for his pains . |
| 16 | I took the tube to Carnaby Street , walked past the colourful street bazaars and ended up in the office , heart almost in mouth . |
| 17 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 18 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |
| 19 | It was a bizarre incident , which created a vicious and public rift between some of Scotland 's most gifted players , and ended up in the ignominy of a High Court hearing . |
| 20 | Jobless Peter Urben , 43 , clambered on to the roof of what he thought was the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop next door . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps it is saying something when I tell you he was aiming for the optician 's and ended up in the carpet shop , ’ he said . |
| 22 | For example , if you use what was the dining room for a work room/study as well , you should either have a round table which can be piled with books when necessary , a table set off-centre , or a drop-leaf table that can be pulled out and set up in the centre of the room as required . |
| 23 | Its audience was familiar with the statue which Charlemagne had brought from Italy and set up in the courtyard at Aachen . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , many did not reach this country , the United States , Canada or any other safe country but ended up in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Dachau because they were denied the right to asylum . |